Test Bank For Meteorology Today An Introduction to Weather Climate and the Environment 2nd Edition by C. Donald Ahrens

Chapter 1

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. Which of the following statements accurately compares how air density and air pressure decrease as atmospheric altitude increases?

a. Air density decreases much less than air pressure decreases.

b. Air density decreases much more than air pressure decreases.

c. Air density decreases in much the same way as air pressure decreases.

d. Air density decreases in a completely different way than air pressure decreases.

2. In which of the following atmospheric layers does most of the Earth’s weather occur?

a. troposphere

b. thermosphere

c. stratosphere

d. mesosphere

3. How much oxygen occupies a volume of air near the Earth’s surface?

a. 21%

b. 43%

c. 78%

d. 84%

4. Which of the following gases absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere?

a. nitrous oxide

b. carbon dioxide

c. ozone

d. chlorofluorocarbons

5. Over which of the following areas does an ozone hole form annually during the southern hemisphere’s spring?

a. Argentina

b. Antarctica

c. South Africa

d. Australia

6. Which of the following descriptions correctly applies to Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot”?

a. It is a huge crater.

b. It is a huge volcano.

c. It is a huge cloud of water vapour.

d. It is a huge spinning eddy.

7. Which of the following is representative of an inversion?

a. the outgassing produced by volcanoes

b. nitrous oxide

c. condensation on a drinking glass

d. the stratosphere

8. Which of the following atmospheric layers is the hottest?

a. mesosphere

b. troposphere

c. thermosphere

d. stratosphere

9. Which of the following equations accurately expresses the relationship between weight, mass, and gravity?

a. weight = mass + gravity

b. weight = mass × gravity

c. weight = mass – gravity

d. weight = mass gravity

10. Which of the following gases varies the most from place to place and from time to time in the lower atmosphere?

a. ozone

b. water vapour

c. carbon dioxide

d. methane